{"product_id":"class-and-community-in-frontier-richard-hogan-9780700631551","title":"Class and Community in Frontier Colorado","description":"Spurred by the Gold Rush of 1859, settlers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities trekked to Colorado and began building towns. Existing accounts of their struggles and those of townbuilders throughout the American West focus on boom-or-bust economics, rampant boosterism, and bitter social conflicts. This, according to sociologist Richard Hogan, is not the whole story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eClass and Community in Frontier Colorado\u003c\/i\u003e Hogan offers a fresh perspective on the frontier townbuilding experience. He argues that townbuilding in Colorado was not, as some have suggested, monopolized by local boosters or national business interests. It was, instead, a complex, dynamic process that reflected competition, cooperation, and conflict among various socioeconomic classes, and between local and national business interests as well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHogan shows how farmers, ranchers, miners, tradesmen, merchants, bankers, entrepreneurs, land speculators, and eastern investors all vied for control in six of Colorado's emerging urban centers: Denver, Central City, Greeley, Golden, Pueblo, and Canon City. Meticulously he traces the conflicts and coalitions that arose in and among these groups. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy combining historical sociology with local history, Hogan's study challenges current thinking about economic development, class structure and conflict, political partisanship, collective action, and social change in the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Hogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700631550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700631551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Richard Hogan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053079294207,"sku":"9780700631551","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7f4827a-8227-4cbf-a6f5-f7900fbf795a.jpg?v=1685022282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-and-community-in-frontier-richard-hogan-9780700631551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}